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Holy Trinity Coventry Parish Profile HOLY TRINITY COVENTRY PARISH PROFILE Page 1 of 37 BISHOP’S INTRODUCTION Holy Trinity is an historic and influential parish church in the city of Coventry, with the vicar holding key responsibilities in areas of mission, ministry, education, ecumenical relations, and civic life. I have worked closely with the outgoing incumbent (David Mayhew) to ensure that, along with the Cathedral, the Church of England is not only represented at appropriate meetings but has an initiatory and creative and role in the spiritual and social engagement with the City of Coventry, in partnership with other churches and agencies, including HOPE Coventry. There is a general recognition, shared by the Dean of Coventry, that it is time to undertake a review of the working relationship and potential partnership emphases of Holy Trinity and the Cathedral, given their close proximity. The new incumbent will have a key contribution to make to these fresh discussions on what mission and ministry may look like for the centre of the City of Coventry (‘Hill Top’), a centre that includes the heart of Coventry University and the Coventry Churches’ Prayer House. Although a city centre parish with civic responsibilities, Holy Trinity has a range of worship styles and patterns with various congregations, giving it a valuable and welcomed breadth and richness. Its vicar needs to be someone who gains energy from and is stimulated from a wide range of liturgical and more informal worship, holding the balance as necessary. At the same time, the new incumbent will need the capacity and creativity to nurture styles of church life that do not seek to replicate the Cathedral and the discernment to develop sustainable patterns of worship. Founded by Leofric and Godiva and keyed into the great prayer house of St Mary’s Priory, saved from destruction during the bombing raids by the mercy of God and courage of its war time vicar, and catalyst of spiritual renewal in the city in the latter part of the last century, Holy Trinity has played an extraordinarily significant part in the spiritual history of Coventry. It continues to have a lead role in Christian witness in the city through its part in what I have called elsewhere ‘the new ecumenism’ of the present century but the possibilities for an even greater part in the purposes of God in the future are immense. Let that future begin now. I commend this post warmly to you. With my prayers Page 2 of 37 DEANERY SUMMARY Holy Trinity is part of Coventry North Deanery. Deaneries in this Diocese are key strategic structures for mission. Coventry North Deanery includes city centre, UPA, suburban and rural parishes, most of which include areas of deprivation. There are many younger people in their 20-30s, particularly students within the city centre, and reaching these with the gospel is a target area for both the deanery and the diocese. Almost all church traditions are within the deanery, from evangelical- charismatic to traditionalist-catholic, and including a Pioneer church in the city centre (Urban Hope), and the Cathedral. We are committed to fulfilling the threefold Diocesan Mission Purpose of Worshipping God, Making New Disciples and Transforming Communities via the 8 Essential Qualities of healthy churches, and we want to work together to both support each other and see God’s Kingdom come in Coventry North. The deanery is seeking to grow churches and to become more missionally sustainable. We are expectant that God will do great things among us and there is a growing sense in the deanery that building good relationships and sharing best practice will be significant for our growth as a whole. Holy Trinity is a key parish, with an opportunity to contribute to the mission of the deanery and be a resourcing church both in city centre ministry and across the deanery as a whole. We look forward to welcoming the new incumbent and seeing what God has next for Holy Trinity. Alison Evans Area Dean Page 3 of 37 BACKGROUND TO POST Holy Trinity is an influential church in the city of Coventry, with the vicar holding key responsibilities in the areas of mission (particularly arising from its city-centre location), ministry (with a wish to serve the poorer more effectively), education (the vicar normally sits on the Board of Governors of a CofE Secondary Academy ), ecumenical (the vicar has an important role in Hope Coventry – an ecumenical gathering of local church leaders) and civic life (co-ordinating with the Bishop and Dean of the Cathedral to ensure the Church of England is represented at appropriate occasions). The church stands in the centre of Coventry about 100 metres from Coventry’s old and new Cathedrals. The spires of Holy Trinity and the old and new Cathedrals are well-known features of the city of Coventry, in the heart of ‘HillTop’, the name given to this part of the city centre. Together, they are landmarks from which Christian mission and ministry reaches into Coventry and the wider world. There is a willingness in both churches to identify their unique strengths and play to them, but also to work together more. Various steps have been taken in this direction previously (including by the current Archbishop of Canterbury!), with varying degrees of support and success, but we believe that the current configuration of Cathedral staffing and the appointment of a new vicar for Holy Trinity provides an excellent opportunity to review this relationship afresh together, and their mutual relationship with the city, without sacrificing our respective individualities. The church has been actively engaging with the 8 Essential Qualities of healthy churches (Natural Church Development – NCD), and has just received its third set of survey results. These show encouraging progress, also reflected in recent numerical growth. As a church we look forward and seek God’s will for Holy Trinity and its various and diverse congregations. Some common themes have emerged as we have talked and prayed together. We have worked hard under the last incumbent to address weaknesses in effective structures, and have made much progress. We now seek a new leader to carry this positive momentum forward. The post will become vacant in July 2016 on the retirement of the Reverend David Mayhew, who has given his permission to the patron (Lord Chancellor) for the recruitment process for his successor to begin before his retirement date. Page 4 of 37 ROLE SPECIFICATION The role of this post is to lead the church in fulfilling the Diocesan Mission Purpose of: Worshipping God Making New Disciples Transforming Communities. This will be achieved by developing 8 essential qualities in the life of the church: Empowering Leadership Gift-oriented Ministry Passionate Spirituality Inspiring Worship Holistic Small Groups Need-oriented Outreach Loving Relationships Functional Structures PERSON SPECIFICATION We welcome a candidate who is committed to the Diocesan Mission Purpose and the 8 Essential Qualities, and who: Knows they are loved by God, has a faith rooted in prayer, and has an infectious love of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bible, and people from all walks of life. Understands the potential of a thriving city-centre church to further build the Kingdom of God in Coventry, is excited by the opportunities offered by its wide range of styles of worship, and is enthusiastic about outreach, social action and ecumenical, educational and civic engagement. Is experienced in developing, empowering and working with gifted lay leaders. This experience should have included the development of strategic direction and appropriate structures and processes which can be shown to have led to sustained growth. Has experience in the strategic development of small groups to support the life and growth of a large church. Is able to contribute with spiritual wisdom to open discussions about developing shared opportunities for Holy Trinity, Coventry Cathedral and the wider HillTop community. Page 5 of 37 HOLY TRINITY COVENTRY AND THE DIOCESAN MISSION PURPOSE AND 8 ESSENTIAL QUALITIES The Mission Purpose of the Diocese of Coventry is: Worshipping God Making New Disciples Transforming Communities Holy Trinity Coventry is fully committed to fulfilling these three aspects. We believe that we will achieve this Mission Purpose by developing 8 Essential Qualities in the life of the church. Empowering Leadership Holy Trinity Church (HTC) has benefited from strong lay involvement over several decades. Current examples include: considerable involvement in leading, preaching, planning and welcome at our various services. a Messy Church initiative. youth and children’s work. nurturing a Youth Band, in addition to the existing choir and music group. This involvement has provided a good base for service in God's Kingdom, and in some cases has been a key stimulus for people in considering ordination. However, HTC does tend to focus responsibility and leadership by identifying particular types of confident individuals, rather than creating teams who work together in mutual support. We are still in the learning phase of this, but some progress has been made in creating an administrative leadership team, a preaching and teaching team, and a Ministry Leadership Team (MLT). The leadership challenges facing us are: individually and collectively to develop our self-understanding and -practice as a united body in Christ, to develop leadership in people beyond the “usual suspects” and to identify leadership gifts in the wealth of experience in our whole community, to give people real responsibility for teams and projects with appropriate accountability, rather than delegating jobs. Page 6 of 37 We are aware that all this only grows in the context of good relationships and careful resourcing, and takes time and patience. The new incumbent will play a crucial rôle in strategically developing and modelling this type of leadership culture, and will need to prioritise appropriate time for it to be fruitful.
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